Chapter 17 Student Quiz

. In the early modern period, most western Africans made a living as _____.

Agriculturalists.

Industrial workers.

Hunter-gatherers.

Pastoralists.

. Animal husbandry was far more developed in Western Africa than in either Eurasia or the Americas.

True.

False.

. The kingdoms of Mali and Songhai were both linked into the Mediterranean world via _____.

The Indian Ocean trade.

Similar religious beliefs.

Trade routes across the Sahara.

Missionaries that traveled the Sahara.

. Most West Central Africans practiced subsistence agriculture without beasts of burden to pull their plows, primarily because _____.

They had no domesticated large animal.s

Tsetse flies decimated large livestock in the region.

Diseases like malaria made death rates too high.

They lacked ambition to create a more efficient agricultural system.

. Blacksmiths were vitally important to the survival of early modern kingdoms because _____.

They made swords to equip armies.

Farmers depended on them for agricultural implements.

They built ships for trade down dangerous rivers.

They knew how to find valuable metals for trade.

. The warring states of West Africa produced one major commodity for trade, _____.

Gold.

Salt.

Slaves.

Textiles.

. Queen Nzinga of Ndongo helped her people to survive by _____.

Defeating the Portuguese.

Allying with the Portuguese and defeating her enemies.

Adapting and building her own slave trading state.

Rejecting European ways in favor of African traditions.

. The capture of African slaves was primarily done by Africans.

True.

False.

. The number of African slaves brought to the New World between the 16th and early 19th centuries was _____.

Roughly 2 million.

Between 4 and 5 million.

Between 20 and 50 million.

Between 10 and 12 million.

. Like their Bantu neighbors, Pygmies venerated their dead ancestors.

True.

False.

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